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RE: The necessity for Steemit to learn from Instagram's flaws. | 📷 💭 |
Yes, I agree with most of these points. I will be curious to see how the fact that each steemian is a co-owner of the platform (big or small), will affect how they behave to collectively solve these problems and avoid these issues.
A long road still to go, but I see gradual improvements taking place as people's stake become more and more valuable with an increasing price, and people thus realise that taking measures to increase the value of the token by making the platform better for users makes them more money than spamming follow for follow to get an extra upvote.
I hope to see the same progression in the comming future. Ofc you have seen a lot more on Steemit than I have, and if you are saying it's already improving, I am already quite happy.
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That is an interesting point. Do you think people see themselves as co-owners of steemit?
I am of the opinion people do have some notion of ownership, for the most part, but not quite like "owners". Hard to define... Maybe that spirit could be more cultivated in the community.
People are not co-owners of steemit, it belongs to steemit inc, but everyone who owns STEEM tokens are co-owners of the STEEM Blockchain.
There is a long way to go to foster a culture where people act to maximize the total value of the pie that is STEEM. If people are rational, then seeing the value of their accounts surge as the value of STEEM went from 1$ to 6$ should have them realise that wealth can be made also by contributing to the value of the tokens they hold. So I think and hope that as the value of STEEM grows, people will be more mindful of the fact that their behaviours, collectively, help determine its further growth or decline.
Lastly, this is why I think the Smart Media Tokens coming to STEEM soon (see steem.io) will be huge. When there are people with so radically different ideas as to what STEEM can and should be, it is hard to get everyone to act according to a common set of rules and principles. With SMTs, communities can have their own tokens running on STEEM that they can work to make more valuable. The independent success of many smaller communities in making themselves attractive to likeminded people will still benefit the overall value of STEEM.
Basically, this is a great summary of the short term future of steemit in my opinion. Also the more we try to do innovative projects, the more the community will determine the form and shape of steemit @tiagopaixao
t.
Very well put. Thanks for that. Although, as the the platform grows, in terms of number of users, that sense of ownership and gets diluted, no? it becomes harder to see the correlation between your actions and the price of Steem...
And I have yet to understand SMTs properly... I understand what they are, just not what the use case is. I haven't seen a convincing one yet...
Well, I hope to see a list soon somewhere working out possible Ideas about that !Maybe I will fantasize about those myself and cook somthing up :)
t.